This week WIERD welcomes the Very Rare sounds of NITE JEWEL from minimal electronic Los Angeles for a live performance at midnite! this will be the first in a series of 3 excellent new frozen hot LA minimal synth bands to hit the WIERD stage in the next 6 weeks, soon to be followed by the great Frank Alpine(coming to the WIERD March 3rd) and Tearist(March 24th), all of whom recently joined us at the first annual L.A. WIERD Festival 2009 this past November. Ramona and co. have crafted a truly idiosyncratic sound in the night jewel crown, combining the sounds of classic minimal synth with those of both mid-period Italodisco and 70s US/UK soft rock, its quite unlike anything synthworthy out there right now, so slide on in on the JEWEL-encrusted Angelino ice and get Very Rare to-NITE! http://www.myspace.com/nitejewel
I'm proud to finally be able to say the WIERD will be making a long overdue return to the continent this March and April! Xeno & Oaklander will be joined on stage in Paris by our beloved French allies Frank(just Frank) Thursday evening March 11th, and X&O will play a second show Sat. night March 13th at the great 'Nullzeit' Party inside the mysterious WORM in Rotterdam, The Netherlands:
http://agenda.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=3129 where Sean and Liz will be joined by our old friends Twilight Ritual from Belgium as well as Dutch minimal electronic legends Das Ding! The full-scale Xeno & Oaklander/Led Er Est European tour will officially commence on April 13th in London and take both bands on an 18 date tour through the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France and Italy! Many more details to come on all these shows in the next few weeks, rest assured the WIERD is coming to the theatre in you at long last!
The next release on Wierd Records will be the long awaited debut LP from Frank(just Frank) due out in April! The band did their first ever interview this past week in Paris for Rockfort.com:
http://www.rockfort.info/content.aspx?cid=186
In case anyone missed their fantastic show last year at the weekly party here is the live video for your froide-tastic afternoon pleasure:
Frank(just Frank) - 'Die in Bed' Live at Wierd April 15th, 2009
| http://www.youtube.com/user/WIERDrecords#p/u/21/leVTFbuZsuM
Thanks to everyone who packed out the WIERD World last week to catch a VRlimpse of the first new MARTIAL CANTEREL trax from his epic opus of an LP forthcoming later this year from WIERD, as Sean played them all live for the first time! Our in-house videological pleasureseeker Jimi Patterson just posted a nice vignette of one of these killer songs that shall remained eminently unnamed for now: http://vimeo.com/9092721
Pieter, Katie Rose, and Shawn NoEQ Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday February 3rd, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by NITE JEWEL at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info:(212)226-5708
This week's WIERD is dedicated to everyone who has experienced the mild anxiety triggered by the Very Rare realization that sending someone a 'PM' before noon is quite literally giving the unsolicited gift or time travel...don't panic..deeeep breath, I'm pretty confident the world is still there outside this sad little glowing box, but let me go check just a moment please... ...actually...sorry to say but I'm afraid that as I gaze out this fragile, frigid, frozen cold window...
...That at long last the man who started it all back in the dark days of 2001 MARTIAL CANTEREL is back tonite for a live performance of pure, unadulterated minimal electronic music at midnight!!! This will be Sean's first live show in the WIERD World proper since last summer, and seeing as the VRicked winds should be whippin up quite the Vague Froide Moderne Blizzard this evening, tonite's performance will certainly be much colder than the last! Sean will be playing a whole new set of trax from his first new LP in over 3 years coming later this year from the WIERD, and from the incredible demos I've hear this ones destined to quite the 'Opus'. Arrive early to catch a glimpse of the master craftsman at work in true 'Windscreen Time'...VR.
http://www.myspace.com/martialcanterel
In other news of the WIERD, at long last I would like to proudly proclaim that last week WIERD achieved one of the keystone moments of what my too-many-years-of-club-crawling-to-admit-to has demonstrated to be true 'achievement in the genre': someone left their shoes at the club...yes its true, thank you very much(...I'd like to first thank my parents...love you guys and...) And let me assure you kiddies, it was 8 degrees out, and these are certainly NOT the fierce 5 inch heels of a bitchy queen who predictably(albeit charmingly) stormed out in a tragically unnoticed VRamatic fluster after googling his lesbian lover in the powder room, or a lovely young debutante type who forgot her dispensable little post-happy hour shopping from Jeffrey, these shoes are so frighteningly practical they could only belong to what one might refer to as the 'post-everything/20-nothing male hetero-American'...this WIERD's for you Bro high-five!, long live the dissappearing 'New Balance' anchoring your wierd world, guess it didn't quite work out thank god, send me a 'PM' tomorrow AM and we'll get VR together in the frozen cold future to exchange eyelashes! :)))xoVRp.
And speaking of time zone traversing, I just wanted to remind everyone as I do 4 times a year with each grand slam event, the Australian open is now down to the round of 16, so please expect 2-3 business day delays on all mail order enquiries.
The WIERD webshop is open at last! All shopping carts equipped w high-end fog machines and a full array of single malts of course. New distro releases will gradually be added by bands that have played the party or appeared on the compilations, new killers from Tobias Bernstrup, Frank Alpine, Led Er Est, and the new Opus Finis/Newclear Waves split 7" are in stock now.
The new X&O studio video for the track 'Rendez-Vous d'Or' off of the 'Sentinelle' LP is complete!:
http://www.vimeo.com/9003495
The new feature on WIERD in the February issue of Dazed and Confused Magazine is on newstands now. In the common case you simply cannot bear physical objects anymore, you can read it here on the website(Jan. 22nd)
Lastly for everyone who ordered the incredible 'Danza Meccanica' compilation from Alessandro of Mannequin Records in Rome when he was here to spin the party a few weeks back, I have your copies, so send me an AM tomorrow night and we'll go back in time to Milano 1980 together, and while you're at it email Ale asap and demand he press another edition of this beautifully designed masterpiece chronicling the seminal years of cold wave and minimal synth music in Italy, truly an fantastic record and long lost world that needs to be heard anew in 2010.
http://www.mannequinmailorder.com/
Pieter, Jordan and ANAREXIA! Spin the Explosive Arrival of Windscreen Time!
Wednesday January 27th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by MARTIAL CANTEREL at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info: (212)226-5708
22 January 2010
The new feature on Wierd in Dazed and Confused print is on newsstands now. Click above for a full screenshot.
A new Xeno & Oaklander video documentary has just been unveiled on Vice tv. Click to view.
20 January 2010
This week WIERD welcomes the return of the darkly psychedelic, gypsy wave pleasures of Religious to Damn for a live performance at midnight! Zohra and Josh have just recently completed recording their debut full-length, come on down to cower in its briskly wild, wind-blown pleasures...VR.
http://www.myspace.com/religioustodamn
The WIERD Records label spotlight on Recharged Radio in London is now archived for anyone who missed it, simply visit http://rechargedradio.com/ and click on the 'Wierd Records Showcase' link in the 'listen again' tab! thanks again to Alex Watson and co. for their interest.
The second studio video off of Led Er Est's debut LP 'Dust On Common' for the track 'Something for the Children' directed by Ava Warbrick and Owen Huchinson is online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7L_djDeRA.
The new VV live at WIERD Video from last week's party as well as two new live videos of Epee Du Bois performing live at the WIERD Presents: The Pleasures of Xanten' event at Art Basel Miami are now up on the WIERD Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/WIERDrecords
Also I wanted to bring to everyones attention that the 'Systems of Romance' blog run by the WIERD's own Frankie Teardrop is quite clearly becoming the pre-eminent blog in the U.S. for legendary cold wave and minimal electronic obscurities. Amongst many many others at the moment Frankie has available the amazing first Nagamatzu 'Sacred Islands of the Mad' K7 with extra bonus trax, the impossible to find SNX 4 LP+7" boxset from Hawaii Records, France, the mega-VRare 'Mask: First Relation' classic comp. collecting the seminal Italian cold wave bands, and the 'Insane Music for Insane People, Volume 13' LP from Alain Neffe's famous label in Belgium. Head for the Romantic System and you'll seriouosly be shivering with joy for a year: http://systemsofromance.blogspot.com/.
Pieter, Glenn, and Frankie Spin the WIERD!
Wednesday, January 20th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
13 January 2010
This week's WIERD is dedicated to everyone who did not attend last week's WIERD, and is 'OK with that'.
Tonite Wierd welcomes the return of VOID VISION to the weekly party for a live performance at midnight! Shari and Hayden have been locked away in the frozen cold Phillywave catacombs rigorously crafting their long-awaited debut LP arriving from the distant planes of the Wierd World this spring, so come on down to the depths tonite to bask in its VR pleasures...
http://www.myspace.com/voidvision
Tomorrow night, Thursday January 14th 7pm UK time, the fantastic Recharged Radio show in London will be presenting an hour long primetime Wierd Records special! Please Join Alex Watson and co. by simply tuning in online. The show will be available via a downloadable podcast next week.
Expect many new and unreleased WIERD gems in this one!
http://rechargedradio.com/
Pieter, Frankie, and Anarexia Spin the Cold, WIERD World!
Wednesday January 13th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by VOID VISION at midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info:(212)226-5708
6 January 2010
Hello young cold people of the wild WIERD world...it is officially 2010...Very Rare. I must say my first thought upon waking up in the new year last Friday morning was the far far beyond apocalyptic fact that noone really seems to know exactly how to 'say' this number denoting the 'year' we live in. Of course the first thing I did was to immediately call my favorite post-everything hotline to the frozen cold world of never-ending abstraction '311'. An apparently lovely, energetic young lady answered, "Hello, 311 what can I do for you?"..."Yes hello, I was calling to ask if you can tell me exactly: how is the new year we are now living in correctly 'pronounced' phonetically?"..."Well sir that is certainly the first time I have ever been asked that. You know I don't really know the answer to that, but everyone around the office here seems to be saying 'Twenty, Ten', so I suppose that is the best answer I can give you"..."Oh I see...but excuse me I'm a bit confused as that is two separate numbers - why is it not a single, unified numerical digit like 'two thousand nine' was? I loved that year, I felt very assured to live in a 'single' number, one nice, clear world inside an excellent 'odd' numbered digit that seemed quite 'real' as a result of its 'singularity', made me feel self-assured...I mean I understand it for something like '1985' which was fine and I totally loved, as to pronounce 'one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five' is simply too inconvenient, but last year was 'two thousand nine', why is it not pronounced 'two thousand ten'? Living in a year denoted by two separate numbers barely adhering together and seemingly about to rip apart is very difficult for me...ugh it makes me so anxious, like I am a tiny, frail tighrope walker barely balancing on a very fragile thin line between two realities - the 'twenty' and the 'ten'...and I don't know which is more 'real' or 'right'...do you know what I mean?"..."Well sir, you certainly have an active imagination wow hmm, and by the way I love the 'eighties' too awesome!...but you know what they say: this whole 'on-line' world IS now 'reality' ha so crazy right?!, god knows I spend more time on-line than off Yikes! :)))...So that is probably why I am sure yeah. :)))...Is there anything else I can help you with today?"...
VR.
This being said...whatever the hell IT is, and determining this has been the WIERD's tragic life's work still 'in progress'...or maybe regress...quite appropriately thus tonite Wierd is pleased to welcome the return of DEATH DOMAIN to the weekly party to walk the cold, Wierd, anxiety-fueled line of latenight analogue electronic pleasure for a live performance at midnight! Adam has been kind enough to take an evening off from his intense Phd studies in Parasitology at Johns Hopkins to slide in on the WIERD latenight ice to play us his new record 'Ethidium Bromide' out on the excellent new minimal electronic-fueled DARK ENTRIES Records in San Francisco! Josh Cheon from Dark Entries will be joining us as well spinning all of his killer forthcoming records including the just re-released 'Decadence Electronique' from German minimal electronic legends Second Decay, and many more! http://www.myspace.com/deathdomainmotif http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/ http://www.myspace.com/darkentriesrecords
Pieter and Josh Spin the Undeniably Schizophrenic Abjection of '2010'
Wednesday, January 6th 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
(Very Rare Live Performance by Death Domain at Midnight!)
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
30 December 2009
Happy New WIERD from Wierd Records, Brooklyn!
Well its been a wild WIERD whirlwind of a year and somehow this tiny, frail icicle of a ship is still afloat out there on the distant horizon a seafaring, and triumphantly all alone VeryRare-ing. As is always is the case at the end of every year there are too many people to thank for their ever gracious and generous help and support in keeping this 'thing' going....whatever IT is, its still WIERD as ever. Beyond the countless DJs, bands and lovely patrons in our eminently confusing, wonderfully frozen cold uncomfortable weekly pleasurefest of an establishment in 2009 extra VRecial thanks go out to Jasper and Mike for keeping myself and the weekly party goin week in and out, Frankie Teardrop for all things web and technologically related at the label, and as always the amazing Mary Cassidy, Naomi Ramirez, Jimi Patterson, and Jordan Levine for their neverending dedication to maintenance of the photo and video archives week after week...VR.
That being said tonite will be the last WIERD Party of 2009 as we welcome the debut one-time-only live performance of a true WIERD Party supergroup CREATION MYTH for a live performance at midnight! And its with absolute pleasure as tonite's performers include the long overdue return our long-time friend and SF/Bay area frozen cold killer queen TAMARYN to the WIERD stage who will be accompanied by Ms. Zohra Atash from Religious to Damn and Josh Strawn(Blacklist/Religious to Damn) on unVaguely Froide-centric guitars a glittering and shining black as all white hell!...Its bound to be another Gypsy New Wave Worldly, wind machine enthralling feast of early 70s meets late 80s psychedelic ritualistic industrial!!! See you all in the forzen cold cave of visceral joy, bring your sorceress robes and bells ladies, time to bid fare thee well for another Wierd year has darkly and splendidly dissappeared :)))
http://www.myspace.com/imagesmusic http://www.myspace.com/religioustodamn
Pieter, Glenn, and Ryan Rayhill Spin the Foreboding of a Happy New WIERD 2009!
Wednesday December 30th, 2009 10pm-4am!
(Very Rare Live Performance by CREATION MYTH at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
17 December 2009
Led Er Est have just unveiled the video for "Laredo" from debut record Dust On Common! The video was filmed by Jacques del Conte and directed by Brendan Harman. Click below to view!
16 December 2009
Tonite WIERD welcomes the long-overdue weekly party debut of VOODOO VOCALS for a live performance at midnight! A long time friend of the WIERD die hard born and raised on the slimy Sunset Strip of frozen hot Los Angeles, many of you know the amazing international playboy drifter and visual artist exVRordinaire Mr. Anthony Burdin aka 'The Skum Pirate' from one of his countless fantastic gallery shows the world over including his unforgettable neverending desertmix Skumscape installation at the 2006 Whitney Biennial! Tonite Anthony will be presenting something quite unlike we've ever seen at the party - an excellent new project entitled 'Voodoo Vocals Christens the WIERD' which will be a retrospective look back at and absolute internal destruction of the frozen cold history of WIERD, featuring hauntings of the likes of Martial Canterel, Led Er Est, Sleep Museum, Xeno & Oaklander, and many more. The original alchemic artform, Voodoo Vocals is quite a phenom most diffikult to articulate - The master of pure cold Skum opens up the mirrored window to the black wax universe, slides in the backdoor of the track and the haunting begins...he slowly creepy crawls around, skumming the fuck outa anything in his dirty little way, then just when you thought you knew what was goin on he slides out the secret locked gate, never to be heard from again...and everything dies...only to reborn again and again...over and over, one inexcusable little black circle at a time...my goodness how could you possibly resist this one kiddies? Do you dare to bare the Skumtastic pleasures of darksynth master of the Very Rare???
http://www.myspace.com/prodigiousmanipulator
Next week the WIERD Party will be 'literally' Very Rare as we're takin a beyond VRecessary week off. Its been a lovely wild ride of a year in the WIERD - over 100 live performances and too many killer cold trax entered the world to even remember them all it seems now. I'm linked out from all the Wierdness this week so go google yourselves in the shadows alone, but I wanted to call everyone's attention to what will be the last our live performance event of the year as WIERD returns Wednesday December 30th when we proudly welcome the debut live performance of CREATION MYTH - a new collaborative one time only ritualistic all-star ceremony bidding farewell to 2009 and VRinging in the Happy New Wierd by none other than the ever elegant gypsy wave queen herself Tamaryn from San Francisco, Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines, and Zohra Atash of Religious to Damn with a few other surprise guests as well...see you all in the WIERD World tonite!
Pieter, Miz Margo and Shawn NoEQ Spin the WIERD
Wednesday, December 16th, 10pm-4am
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy
Info:(212)226-5708
14 December 2009
Xeno & Oaklander's first studio video for the title track from their debut LP Sentinelle is now online!, The video was recorded entirely live in one go and is directed by Thomas Torres with extra camera work by Josh Kline. VR!
9 December 2009
Tonite WIERD welcomes the return of Revel Hotel for a live performance at midnight! Johnny, Frankie and co. have a whole new set of trax in store which will serve as a glimpse into their forthcoming debut EP due out early next month! http://www.myspace.com/revelhotel
I'm very proud to say that the Angular Recording Corporation in London just officially announced the forthcoming 2xLP gatefold/CD/Digital release 'Wierd Presents: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics, Vol. I' historical compilation that has been in production between Angular labelhead Joe Daniel and I for nearly two years now! Please visit the Angular website http://www.arc018.com/ as well as Joe's 'Cold Waves' blog devoted to this epic release http://coldwaves.tumblr.com/ for more details, the cover artwork, and pre-ordering info.
Special pre-release press features on the compilation including the final 2 x LP tracklist are also now online below. The CD and digital versions will contain several extra trax soon to be revealed:
Alt. Sounds Fact Magazine/UK
The WIERD world had quite an excellent time at what turned out to be one of the wildest WIERD Parties ever last Thurs. night at Art Basel Miami with 1000+ people dancing the frozen hot night away. Many videos and photos to come from this one. Special thanks to our long time VRiends Ramiro Jeancarlo and C.E. Oni of the heat-seeking Cubanowave pleasure-machine that is Opus Finis for helping coordinate the details of this incredible evening. For everyone down south due to WIERDular demand Opus will return for a repeat performance at the Living Room in Miami Beach on Dec. 15th. http://www.myspace.com/opusfinis
Xeno & Oaklander will play a special live show this coming Friday Dec. 11th, 8pm-midnight at the Boiler Room in BK(191 N. 14th St.) to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Spoonbill & Sugartown Bookstore with OPEN BAR all night. For those unfamiliar, S&S has long been Williamsburg's eminently well-stocked shop for all things art, architecture and design oriented, so please come out and help our long time supporters and friends Jonas and Miles of S&S celebrate this momentous occasion! More info on this excellent event here: http://www.spoonbillbooks.com/events/index.htm
This Saturday evening will be the first night of Josh Strawn of Blacklist's new monthly party at Satellite Lounge in BK(143 Havemayer St., 10pm-4am) entitled 'Plague Mass', featuring a unique mix of Cold Wave, Metal, Industrial/Noise, and Doom. Josh will be joined by guest DJs Glenn and Ryan form Blacklist as well as film maker Jeff Elstone who will soon begin production for Blacklist's second studio video for 'Shock in the Hotel Falcon'.
Pieter, Glenn and Anarexia! Spin the WIERD World
Wednesday December 9th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Revel Hotel Live at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. @ Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
8 December 2009
Angular Records in London have announced the forthcoming 'Wierd Presents: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics, Vol. I' Compilation, the release date is now set for February 22nd, 2010! More info on this release, tracklist and pre-ordering info can be found on Joe Daniels' blog site: http://coldwaves.tumblr.com/
Tonite will be another truly excellent eveing in the WIERD as we welcome a live performance by The Living Days as well as the official US VRecord release party for DANZA MECCANICA! - the epic historical compilation of Italian Cold Wave and Minimal Electronics nearly 5 years in the making. I am truly honored to welcome our long time ally and absolute king of the Italian cold world Mr. Alessandro Adriani from Mannequin Records, Rome as well this evening who will be joining Frankie T. and yours Very Rarely to spin the entire history of Italian synth/wave new and old!
http://www.myspace.com/livingdays
http://www.myspace.com/mannequinmailorder
http://www.mannequinmailorder.com/
In other news of the WIERD tomorrow evening the WIERD world will be rollin into town to take over Art Basel Miami in conjunction with Miguel Abreu and Adrew Kreps Galleries/NYC, Galerie Daniel Bucholz, Cologne, Sutton Lane Paris/London, and Rental Gallery/Los Angeles as we present the second ever installment of 'The Pleasures of Xanten' - a true all star cast onstage together for an intense minimal electronic pleasurefete of cold wave theatre at the Living Room in downtown South Beach. Expect a greatest hits of WIERD minimal synth of sorts including live performances by Xeno & Oaklander, Martial Canterel, Epee du Bois, Opus Finis, and Staccato du Mal...as well as all kinds of far beyond VR colaborations from the likes of Three to Forgotten, Xeno & Staccato, Henry Zoe and The Siamese Pearl vs. Martial Canterel...how could you all simply not bear to rush out and book yr flights right dees moment! :))) More info and details are up on Wierd central here (scroll to 11/24).
Also for our Southern European VRiends the les demoiselles froides are flying overseas today as Blacklist will be headlining the 'Super Bock Em Stock' festival in Lisbon Portugal this weekend, see you all this evening in the fog and the echoezzz:
http://www.superbock.pt/SuperBrand/superbockemstock/#
Pieter, Frankie, and Alessandro Adriani(Mannequin Records, Rome) Spin DANZA MECCANICA!
Wednesday, December 2nd, 10pm-4am
(VR Live performance by The Living Days at midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
25 November 2009
This week WIERD is proud to celebrate the 6 year anniversary of the WIERD weekly party! It was exactly this day in 2003 that yours Very Rarely and M. Gilles LeGuen did our first event of what was a few weeks later to be named as the WIERD...and this fragile, frozen cold ship is still afloat :) Tonite will also be our beloved long time friend and DJ Jeralyn aka Veryrarealyn who is coming down from cold wave Boston to team up with Micki and Sean of Cult of Youth on the wheels of the WIERD, and Brooklyn's newest band in the minimal electronic lexicon YOUU will make their live debut straight off the bus from dark synth Detroit at Midnight! http://www.myspace.com/treverchrisshow
Also above all in importance I'm happy to say the LPs/CDs for the debut albums from Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est are now eminently available! More info and soundclips are on the website:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/newreleases/index.shtml
For all our ever-supportive European friends, seeing as the sad dying abyss that is the US Postal system just announced international rates will be again jacked through the roof in Jan., officially making it more $ in post for one LP to Germany than the LP itself, I wanted to encourage you all to support the various WIERD Records distributors in your homelands who should all have most of the WIERD records catalogue and distro items by the end of next week. Save yourselves some serious cash and support these guys who truly are the ones keepin WIERD's blood flowin cold...
The WIERD World is takin over Art Basel Miami next Thursday Evening for the 2nd ever installment of the epic production Cold Wave Musical Theatre we will be proudly entitle as 'The Pleasures of Xanten'. This excellent event will feature an all-star cast inclusing Xeno & Oaklander, Martial Canterel, Epee du Bois, Staccato du Mal, and Opus Finis all playing together for over an hour in various formations and configurations! This party will truly be quite the international 'Fête Froide' as the list of sponsors and allies involved now includes Miguel Abreu Gallery/NYC, Andrew Kreps Gallery/NYC, Galerie Daniel Bucholz/Cologne, DE, Sutton Lane/London-Paris, and Rental Gallery/Los Angeles. This event begins at 10pm and is open to all, more info and the official invite are up just below.
Next Tuesday evening Agnes b., Jean-Francois Sanz and the whole crew from Galerie du Jour in Paris will be returning to the city to wrap up production on the NYC wing of the 'Des Jeunes Gens Modernes' feature film documentary begun back at the PS1/MOMA event we did together back in July. For this particular party James Chance from the legendary NYC No Wave band The Contortions will open the show, followed by a VR live performance which will be captured on film from our beloved Mr. Martial Canterel. This event will take place at none other than legendary stylist and international night life persona Maripol's downtown loft, and will feature appearances from many amazing figures from Parisian Vague Froide and well as NYC No Wave's past including Edwige, Yves Adrien, and Maripol herself. There are only a limited number of people to fill out the space, anyone interested can reply to this with 'RSVP and your name' and we will reply with the info on address, time etc. More info on this project here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGTE2jy6F8&feature=fvw http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/07/cheveu_xeno_oak.html
Pieter, Jeralyn, Micki Fingers, and Sean Ragon Spin the WIERD 6 Year Anniversary!
(VR Live Performance by YOUU at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chryste St. @ Delancy St.,
NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
24 November 2009
Miguel Abreu Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Sutton Lane, and Rental invite you to 'The Pleasures of Xanten,' a very rare night of live, cold wave™ music featuring Xeno & Oaklander, Epee du Bois, Martial Canterel, Staccato du Mal, Opus Finis, and DJs Pieter Schoolwerth and Cheyney Thompson.
Thursday, December 3rd from 10pm on.
Living Room South Beach
671 Washington Avenue (near 7th Street)
Miami Beach, FL 33139-6207
Public parking behind the club on 7th Street
18 November 2009
Tonite WIERD is proud to present another momentous event as the weekly party will play host to the long-awaited official release party for LED ER EST's debut LP 'DUST ON COMMON'! This fantastic Synthwave masterpiece has been over a year in the works, and both the band and yours Very Rarely are far beyond excited to play it for you all at long last. There will be no cover tonite, we will be introducing and playing the album in its entirety beginning at midnite accompanied by a series of never before screened live and studio videos, following which Samuel Kk, Shawn NoEQ and Owen will be spinning their favorite trax of all time for the remainder of the evening...the epic adventure from Laredo to Port Isabel will soon commence, look forward to seeing you all on the dusty cold planes of the WIERD World, its gonna be a wild ride indeed...VR.
'Dust on Common' just went live on ITunes and all your favorite media outlets this morning, anyone interested can visit the website and download the record here: http://www.wierdrecords.com/newreleases/index.shtml.
Led Er Est's debut studio video for 'Laredo' is now live online courtesy of directors Brendan Harman and Jacques Del Conte!: http://www.halfgoodwork.com/video/Led.mov
Just to let everyone know I will be shipping the first round of Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est LPs and CDs out this weekend, please be patient, we have a bit of catching up to do...you will all receive your orders soon I assure you.
The WIERD arrived back in NYC late last night after an amazing week's worth of shows on the west coast. Much more to come on all these excellent events, but for now I would like to just sincerely thank the ever lovely Ms. Sarah Stinson of Killing Spree/Los Angeles, Miz Margo of Suspiria/Dark Sparkle and Omar Perez of Shutter/Popscene - San Francisco...long live the new Kings and Queens of Cold Wave California!!! After all these years we've finally got some solid allies in the US!
WIERD Records Presents the LED ER EST Record Release Party!
Wednesday Nov. 18th, 10pm-4am
(Featuring the Debut of 'Dust On Common' at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
11 November 2009
This week Wierd plays host to a demonstration that the Minimal Electronic gods are awash with the return of the repressed - it was only a matter of time before the floodgates of restraint necessary to maintain the body of the classic, fragile minimal synth sound started eroding as the digitalized 'masculine' voice comes back with a Very Rare vengeance. And this week the spirit of Electronic Body Music will indeed take the WIERD stage as we welcome Blush Response and Head Trip Conception for a double bill live performance! Very important please take note ***TONITE'S SHOW WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 11PM*** So for all you Head Hunters and Rivet-Heads-in-denial, tonite we're gonna party like its 1989!...
http://www.myspace.com/blushresponse
http://www.myspace.com/trippingonconception
I wanted to let all our forever beloved European friends, music fans, shops and mail orders know as of December 1st the entire WIERD Records catalog will now distributed internationally by Cargo Records, London. So save yourself some postage and visit the Cargo site for more info on all releases, present and future:
http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/
A last reminder to all our West coast VRiends the WIERD Festival in LA begins tomorrow evening with the pre-fest blowout at The Killing Spree Party, Medusa Lounge in Hollywood. Please see the forthcoming web features on Blacklist this Thurs. and print feature on Friday on WIERD in the LA Weekly for more details, more specific info is up on the website, scroll down a bit for poster and bills for Thurs.-Sun. in LA and SF. NOMAD holds 400-500 and Knockout, SF only about 250 so get there early to get in. And BTW theres major caravans of people comin down and up the coast to all shows so for anyone who wants a ride either way sure we can squeeze you in :) : http://www.wierdrecords.com/news/index.htm
Also I wanted to let everyone know who Pre-Ordered the Xeno & Oaklander LP/CD or the Led Er Est LP/7"(yes WIERD will have a ton of copies of the new LeE killer single 'Poll Gorm b/w 'Man and Tree' on the Captured tracks label out today) via the website I will do my best to get all your orders out asap when we return next Thurs-Sat., doin my best to keep everyone happy here as always, please be patient.
http://www.wierdrecords.com/newreleases/index.shtml
Plenty more VRevents on the horizon - next week we eagerly celebrate the long-awaited record release for LED ER EST's debut LP masterpiece 'DUST ON COMMON'! Shawn, Sam and Owen have prepared an excellent evening of sounds and visual as we will spin the amazing record in its entirety at midnite, and yes we will have copies of the vinyl for sale at the party...VR.
http://www.myspace.com/lederest
The amazing Joe Daniels from the Angular/Domino label in London just sent over the link to this great new site he has begun to prepare everyone for the epic historical compilation release 'WIERD Presents: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics'(2 x LP gatefold/CD, Angular Records 2010) chronicling the long lost history of cold wave and minimal electronic music the world over he and I have been organizing for much of the past nearly 18 months now. I'm not at liberty to disclose the final 19 song tracklist yet, but a tentative release date of late February next year has been set for this one and we will indeed be holding official release parties in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York for this monster of a collection featuring an endless all-star cast from the secret history of the cold wave world, past and VResent. http://coldwaves.tumblr.com/
Also an early warning to all our 'Art-Worldly' supporters - the next excellent 'WIERD Presents:' event will be at ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH on Thursday evening December 4th at the Living Room in downtown South Beach. As we have done in many WIERD year's past, this particular party will see the ghostly return of an incredible cast of artists and DJs very we may perhaps tentatively once again call 'Wierd Presents: THE PLEASURES OF XANTEN AND VRIENDS' - featuring live performances from the likes of Xeno & Oaklander, Martial Canterel, Epee du Bois, Staccato du Mal, Opus Finis, The Siamese Pearl, and Flesh Graey Display...in numerous maximal electronic formations. More info on this lovely event next week, just for old times sake I'll leave you with this great video from one of the many 'Pleasures of Xanten' performances of years past at WIERD LIVE #4...certainly a chillingly icy night to remember:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XCCsAhDow http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/
Pieter, Glenn, and Frankie Teardrop spin the WIERD
Wednesday, November 11th, 10pm-4am
(VR LIve Performances by Blushresponse and Head Trip Conception BEGINNING AT 11PM!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
4 November 2009
This week WIERD proudly welcomes yet another Very Rarely and above all INORDINATELY exciting plethora of guest performers as our new VRiends from the misty cold bay area world BRONZE will be swingin through the weekly party for a live performance at midnight! Spoiled as we have much of the past few months by so many new killer bands such Twisted Wires, Silk Flowers, Cult of Youth, and Zola Jesus, Bronze combine electronics with traditional rock and accoustic instruments to meld a fantastic darkly hybridized sound that might be called something along the lines of 'Psychedelic Industrial Music' - like if Ethan Port of Savage Republic broke into Floyd's practice space in 1968, kicked young Syd out and called Holger Czukay from Can back to the future on the sell foam to join up on bass with Mr. Waters and they cruised on into the WIERD to get VR...fuck man top that, my goodness! :)
http://www.myspace.com/copperclub
So as if that wasn't enough, our beloved investigateur of all vinylicious pleasures Jeffo! informed me earlier this week that we will also be joined by himself and the amazing Mr. ANDY BELL of British synth pop legends ERASURE! I will not be held responsible as starting any rumors here kiddies but I did coincidentally get several txts this week merely 'informing me' that Andy's VRiend and one of the true godfathers of minimal electronics himself who will only here be denoted as 'V' has also been spotted in the city in the past week while Erasure is recording their new record...so maybe...no way...but then again its WIERD you never knoo oh...Ah the synthywave pleasure that await us all tomorrow evening see you all in the frozen cold cloudzzzz.... http://www.myspace.com/erasureofficial
In other News of the WIERD of late the debut LP/CD from XENO & OAKLANDER as of yesterday is
now available via Itunes Just click on the link on the Wierd site:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/newreleases/index.shtml
The LP/CD version is available for pre-order now and all orders will be shipped Nov. 18th, send us an email info@WierdRecords.com to reserve your copies of either, as well as the debut LP from Led Er Est 'Dust on Common' available at the same time. http://www.myspace.com/xenoandoaklander
Jimi P. has just uploaded this excellent vignette of last week's X&O release party...truly an evening I will never forget...simply have no words can express the musical jouissance this project's completion brings...as the tears begin to come down...dans le FROID! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrBr7hfpeTQ
Jamie J. over at the Fader just posted a new WIERD Records feature on the Fader.com site with a new and unreleased Xeno & Oaklander video from Jordan Levine and a new freely downloadable mix of frozen hot new trax all made in the past few months from bands who have played in the party this year, this won't be live forever: http://www.thefader.com/2009/11/02/freak-scene-46-wierd-records/
Secondly, its a bit much to get into here but next Thursday the WIERD family restrained circus of pleasures will be taking our annual bon voyage to the west coast as WIERD is joining forces with Sarah Stinson of LA's excellent new KILLING SPREE Party to present the WIERD FESTIVAL 2009! - 2 nights, 8 bands in downtown LA, to be followed by a third performance Sunday evening at the Knockout in San Francisco. The fliers, and a complete list of bands and special activities and parties surrounding the fest are now up on the website:
Speaking of LA, another loyal WIERD supporter Liz O. at the LA Weekly just posted a nice piece on Blacklist, for everyone out west keep an eye out for Liz's epic WIERD feature preview of next weekend fest in the Weekly next Wed. Blacklist will be playing with Swedish Indie Wave darlings of the moment The Merry Onnettes tomorrow evening at Union Hall in BK and WIERD will play host to the afterparty.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/synthful/newish-music-for-the-dark-at-h/
Ah the long daze that lie ahead...prepare yourselves darlings yessss...
Pieter, Jeffo!, and Andy Bell(Erasure)Spin the WIERD World!
Wednesday November 4th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by BRONZE(San Francisco, CA) at Midnight!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St. at Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
2 November 2009
Wierd Records, Brooklyn and Killing Spree, Los Angeles Present:
The Wierd Festival 2009!!!
Thursday November 12th:
Pre-Festival Party at Killing Spree 10pm-2am
DJs: Pieter(Wierd Records/Brooklyn), Black Rainbow(Sarah Stinson/Killing Spree/LA)
Medusa Lounge
3211 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 382-5723
http://medusaloungela.com/
Friday November 13th:
Xeno & Oaklander(Official Record release party for their debut LP/CD 'Sentinelle'!)
Nite Jewel
Frank Alpine(first ever live performance!)
Tearist
DJ Pieter
Saturday Afternoon, November 14th:
Xeno & Oaklander Live In Store at Vacation Vinyl Music
4679 Hollywood Blvd, LA, CA
Show starts promtly at 6pm, FREE
http://www.vacationvinyl.com/
Saturday November 14th:
Blacklist
Martial Canterel
Bronze(San Francisco/Ex-The Vanishing)
DJ Pieter
NOMAD
1993 Blake Avenue, Downtown Los Angeles
(213)765-0756
Doors 9pm, $10 each night!
Goes all Fukin night long New York Style! http://www.nomadlosangeles.com/
Sunday Nov. 15th:
Xeno & Oaklander
Blacklist
Veil Veil Vanish
DJs: Omar, Miz Margo
The Knockout, Mission/San Francisco
Doors 8pm/$10
http://www.theknockoutsf.com/
